The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Thomas Conrad (Stereophile, JazzTimes, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. The Fury, Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts '24)
  2. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)
  3. Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts)
  4. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  7. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  8. Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Jim Snidero, Bird Feathers (Savant)
  10. Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [60th Anniversary Edition] (1964, Impulse!)
  2. Ryan Truesdell Presents Gil Evans Project, Shades of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music)
  3. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside)
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  5. Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre (1988, Storyville '24)

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